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The top five RSS readers for keeping up with your news feeds (www.theverge.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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RSS readers allow you to collect the articles of specific sources in one app, making it a lot easier to find the content you’re interested in without crawling through a lot of noise. RSS (which may stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, or one of several other possibilities — nobody seems sure) has been around a while, having been first developed in 1999, although it wasn’t more widely adopted until a few years later.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

It's sad how there's basically no good local RSS readers anymore, only paid subscription based ones or self-host solutions. At least on Windows that is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah. Anything worth developing takes up quite a bit of time and doing that for free doesn't really work out for many devs. Only one I can think of that's close to what you mentioned is maybe Thunderbird?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

On Windows, I've been very happy with RSSOwlnix, even though it hasn't seen any changes in 2 years.

https://github.com/Xyrio/RSSOwlnix

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fluent Reader. I use it with freshrss myself but it is just as good using it fully local.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fluent Reader would be perfect if it could start on log on and run in the background, but the dev seems to not care about that so...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Just paste a shortcut inside the startup folder? Type shell:startup in the explorer address bar.